Milind Mahajan is a senior researcher in the Speech Research group in Microsoft Research at Redmond.

• Enhanced audio/video experience
• Multi-modal user interfaces
• Speech Recognition: discriminative acoustic modeling, language modeling.
• Spoken Language Systems: natural language and speech understanding systems.
• Machine Learning: conditional random fields, maximum entropy, perceptron, HMM.

• P. Nguyen, M. Mahajan, and X. He Training Non-Parametric Features for Statistical Machine Translation. In ACL 2007 Second Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation. Prague, Czech Republic, June, 2007.
• C. Ma, P. Nguyen, and M. Mahajan Finding Speaker Identities with a Conditional Maximum Entropy Model. In Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. Honolulu, Hawaii, April, 2007.
• P. Nguyen and M. Mahajan Audio/Video Navigation with A/V X-Ray. demonstration in IEEE/ACL 2006 Workshop on Spoken Language Technology. Palm Beach, Aruba, December, 2006.
• Y. Wang, A. Acero, M. Mahajan and J. Lee Combining Statistical and Knowledge-based Spoken Language Understanding in Conditional Models. In Proceedings of COLING/ACL. July 2006.
• M. Mahajan, A. Gunawardana, and A. Acero. Training Algorithms for Hidden Conditional Random Fields. in Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. Tolouse, France, May, 2006.
• P. Hsu, M. Mahajan and A. Acero. Multimodal Text Entry on Mobile Devices , Demo shown at Automatic Speech Recognition & Understanding (ASRU) Workshop. San Juan, Puero Rico, Dec, 2005.
• J. Droppo, M. Mahajan, A. Gunawardana, and A. Acero. How to Train a Discriminative Front End with Stochastic Gradient Descent and Maximum Mutual Information, in Proc. of the IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding. Puerto Rico, Dec, 2005.
• A. Gunawardana, M. Mahajan, A. Acero, and J. Platt. Hidden Conditional Random Fields for Phone Classification, in Proc. of the Interspeech Conference. Lisbon, Portugal, Sep, 2005.
• M. Mahajan, A. Gunawardana and A. Acero. Phone Classification using Hidden Conditional Random Fields,  Poster, in Snowbird Machine Learning Workshop, May 2005.
• D. Yu, M. Mahajan, P. Mau, and A. Acero. Maximum Entropy Based Generic Filter for Language Model Adaptation in Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. Philadelphia, Mar, 2005.
• L. Deng, Y. Wang, K. Wang, A. Acero, H. Hon, J. Droppo, C. Boulis, D. Jacoby, M. Mahajan , C. Chelba, and X. Huang. Speech and language processing for multimodal human-computer interaction (invited), in Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems (Special issue on Real-World Speech Processing), Vol. 36, No. 2, February 2004, pp. 161-187.
• Y. Deng, M. Mahajan and A. Acero. Estimating Speech Recognition Error Rate without Acoustic Test Data, in Proc. of the Eurospeech Conference. Geneva, Switzerland, Sep, 2003.
• D. Yu, K. Wang, M. Mahajan , P. Mau and A. Acero. Improved Name Recognition With User Modeling, in Proc. of the Eurospeech Conference. Geneva, Switzerland, Sep, 2003.
• C. Chelba, M. Mahajan and A. Acero. Speech Utterance Classification, in Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. Hong Kong, Apr, 2003.
• C. Chelba. and M. Mahajan . Information Extraction Using the Structured Language Model, in Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Pittsburgh, PA, June 2001.
• L. Deng, K. Wang, A. Acero, H. Hon, J. Droppo, C. Boulis, Y. Wang, D. Jacoby, M. Mahajan , C. Chelba, and X.D.Huang. Distributed Speech Processing in MiPad's Multimodal User Interface, in IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing. Volume: 10 Issue: 8 , Nov 2002, pp. 605-619.
• X. Huang, A. Acero, C. Chelba, L. Deng, J. Droppo, D. Duchene, J. Goodman, H. Hon, D. Jacoby, L. Jiang, R. Loynd, M. Mahajan , P. Mau, S. Meredith, S. Mughal, S. Neto, M. Plumpe, K. Stery,. G. Venolia, K. Wang, Y. Wang. MIPAD: A Multimodal Interaction Prototype, in Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. Salt Lake City, Utah, May, 2001.
• X. Huang, A. Acero, C. Chelba, L. Deng, D. Duchene, J. Goodman, H. Hon, D. Jacoby, L. Jiang, R. Loynd, M. Mahajan , P. Mau, S. Meredith, S. Mughal, S. Neto, M. Plumpe, K. Wang, Y. Wang. MIPAD: A Next Generation PDA Prototype, in Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Spoken Language Processing. Beijing, China, Oct, 2000.
• Y. Wang, M. Mahajan and X. Huang. A Unified Context-Free Grammar And N-Gram Model for Spoken Language Processing, in Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. Istanbul, Turkey, June, 2000.
• M. Mahajan , D. Beeferman and X. Huang. Improved Topic-Dependent Language Modeling Using Information Retrieval Techniques, in Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. Phoenix, Mar., 1999.
• X. Huang, A. Acero, F. Alleva, M. Hwang, L. Jiang and M. Mahajan. "From Sphinx-II to Whisper: Making Speech Recognition Usable" in C. Lee, F. Soong and K. Paliwal eds.  Automatic Speech and Speaker Recognition, Advanced Topics, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA, 1996.
• X. Huang, A. Acero, F. Alleva, M. Y. Hwang, L. Jiang and M. Mahajan . "Microsoft Windows Highly Intelligent Speech Recognizer: Whisper" in Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. Detroit, MI. May 1995.

Co-inventor on 12 issued patents and 10 pending patent applications.

• Conditional Maximum Entropy Tool
• HCRF Acoustic Model Trainer

E-mail: milind dot mahajan at microsoft dot com
U.S.Mail: Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Research, One Microsoft Way, Redmond WA, 98052-6399, USA

Last updated: August 6, 2007